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Alexandria : hub of the hellenistic world
Title
Alexandria : hub of the hellenistic world / edited by Benjamin Schliesser, Jan Rüggemeir, Thomas J. Kraus, and Jörg Frey ; with the assistance of Daniel Herrmann.
ISBN
316159892X
9783161598920
9783161598937 (PDF ebook)
Publication
Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2021.
Physical Description
L, 621 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary
Alexandria was one of the main hubs of the Hellenistic world and a cultural and religious "kaleidoscope." Merchants and migrants, scientists and scholars, philosophers, and religious innovators from all over the world and from all social backgrounds came to this ancient metropolis and exchanged their goods, views, and dreams. Accordingly, Alexandria became a place where Hellenistic, Egyptian, Jewish, and early Christian identities all emerged, coexisted, influenced, and rivaled each other. Inorder to meet the diversity of Alexandria's urban life and to do justice to the variety of literary and non-literary documents that bear witness to this, the volume examines the processes of identity formation from a range of different academic perspectives. Thus, the prest volume gathers together twenty-six contributions from the realm of archaeology, ancient history, classical philology, religious studies, philosophy, the Old Testament, narratology, Jewish studies, papyrology, and the New Testament. -- Dust Jacket Front Inside Flap.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 03, 2021
Series
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; 460
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Preface
Alexandria: Hub of the Hellenistic world. Introduction.
I. The City.
"The largest and most important" part of Egypt: Alexandria according to Strabo / Gregory E. Sterling
Whose "Glory of Alexandria"? Monuments, identities, and the eye of the beholder / Balbina Bäbler
Alexandria: What does the so-called Letter of Aristeas tell us about Alexandria? / Barbara Schmitz
Religious violence and the Library of Alexandria / Christina Harker
Was Demetrius of Phalerum the founder of the Alexandrian LIbrary? / Maria Sokolskaya.
II. Egyptian and Hellenistic Identities.
Alexandria in the new outline of philosophy in the Roman Imperial Period and in Late Antiquity / Christoph Riedweg
Bottom up or top down: Who initiated the building of Temples for Augustus in Alexandria and Upper Egypt / Stefan Pfeiffer
The shifting definition of Greek identity in Alexandria through the transition from Ptolemaic to Roman rule / Sylvie Honigman
Cultural rivalry in Alexandria: The Egyptians Apion and Chaeremon / Beatrice Wyss
When Syrian politics arrived in Egypt: 2nd century BCE Egyptian Yahwism and the Vorlage of the LXX / Sandra Gambetti
The Apocalypse of Zephaniah and the Tombs of the Egyptian Chora: An archeological contribution to B. J. Diebner's opinion about the relation between Clement of Alexandria and the Coptic traditon of the Apocalypse of Zephaniah / Michael Sommer.
III. Jewish Alexandria.
The Letter of Aristeas and the place of the Septuagint of Alexandrian Judaism / Benjamin Wright
The first pogrom? Religious violence in Alexandria in 38 CE? / Jan N. Bremmer
How much Hebrew in Jewish Alexandria? René Bloch
From Alexandria to Caesarea and beyond: The transmission of the fragments of the Hellenistic Jewish authors / Justin P. Jeffcoat Schedtler
Philo's Quastiones in Genesin and Paul's /John Granger Cook.
IV. From the New Testament to Early Christianities.
Apollos of Alexandria: Portrait of an unknown / Samuel Vollenweider
Locating New Testament writings in Alexandria: On method and the aporias of scholarship / Jörg Frey
Jewish beginnings: Earliest Christianity in Alexandria / Benjamin Schliesser
The interpretation of Pauline understandings of resurrection within The Treatise on the Resurrection (NHC I 4) / Enno Edzard Popkes
The quest for Pantaenus: Paul Collomp, Wilhelm Bousset, and Johannes Munck on an Alexandrian enigma / Wolfgang Grünstäudl
Alexandria, city of knowledge: Clement on "statues" in his Protrepticus (chapter 4) / Thomas J. Kraus
Origen and the "heterodox:" The prologue of the Commentary on John within the Christian Alexandrian context / Anna van den Kerchove
"Monotheistic" discourses in pseudo-Justin's De monarchia: The "uniqueness" of God and the Alexandrian hegemony / Luca Arcari
The martyrdom of Mark in Late Antique Alexandria / Tobias Nicklas.
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